Speakers
Description
"Miri" (the plural of mir) derives from the Russian for "world"; and "way" is for Wayland a protocol used by graphical shells (not the craftsman in European folklore).
Together these make Miriway: an easy way to leverage the Mir compositor engine to build Wayland based desktop environments.
There are many components to a desktop environments: backgrounds, panels, launchers, onscreen keyboards, notifications, etc. Miriway provides a Wayland compositor (which handles the display, input and window management) leaving the rest to be configured.
This talk describes the configuration options that Miriway offers and work through building a full desktop environment by incorporating components from one of the Fedora Spins.
Miriway's configuration is something people can easily use without programming experience, but desktop developers can also take it a step further with code to integrate with it.
Session author's bio
Alan is the team lead for Mir (a library for building Wayland Compositors) and architect of Canonical's "Ubuntu Frame" (a Wayland compositor supporting many IoT usecases).
He finds the process of software development endlessly fascinating as there are always new ways to tackle old problems. (And some of them are even good!)
| Level of Difficulty | Intermediate |
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